Public Broadcasting Service

Broadcasting is the dissemination of information across a more global audience whereas narrowcasting is across a more narrow/smaller audience

Is Press Quality Television?
1.Well acted
2.Coherent Story
3.Well edited to keep the shows mood and tempo/flow/pace
4.Good cinematography
5.Good lighting
6.Well structured

Populism is creating/shaping something around what people want whereas Paternalism is creating/shaping something around what people should have

The BBC ethos is to Inform, Educate and Entertain
The BBC charter is how they follow this ethos
They go against populism and have a more paternalistic approach to what they create.

People were concerned about the new technologies and what they would do.

Grace Wyndham Goldie – Television “transforms time and space”
Habermas – Transforms the public sphere

People feared and mistrusted this new technology

BBC acted like a “social cement”

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